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Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 53. Chapters: Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet, Pierre Daniel Huet, François Fénelon, Francis de Sales, François de Laval, Juan de Palafox y Mendoza, Francesco Barberini, Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria, Esprit Fléchier, Wawrzyniec Grzymala Goslicki, Melchior Klesl, Cardinal de Bouillon, Guido Bentivoglio, Pierre de Marca, Nicholas Francis, Duke of Lorraine, Juan Ortega y Montañés, Leopold V, Archduke of Austria, Alfonso de la Cueva, 1st Marquis of Bedmar, John Albert Vasa, Pierre Lambert de la Motte, Heber MacMahon, Diego Ladrón de Guevara, Henri Arnauld, Bernhard von Galen, Louis Antoine de Noailles, Diego Osorio de Escobar y Llamas, Celestino Sfondrati, Marcos de Torres y Rueda, Nicholas French, Gregorio Panzani, Julius Echter von Mespelbrunn, Piotr Gembicki, Adrian and Peter von Walenburch, Michel Amelot de Gournay, Louis Laneau, Mikolaj Szyszkowski, Cristoval Royas de Spinola, Achille Harlay de Sancy, David Rothe, Adam Adami, Jakub Zadzik, Frang Bardhi, Jean-Baptiste de La Croix de Chevrières de Saint-Vallier, Charles François d'Abra de Raconis, Martín Ignacio de Loyola, Étienne Le Camus, Gregorio Barbarigo, Terence Albert O'Brien, Fausto Poli, Agostinho Barbosa, William Egon of Fürstenberg, Richard Smith, Franz Egon of Fürstenberg, Paolo Emilio Rondinini, Patrick Duffy, Marcantonio Gozzadini, Carlo Gaudenzio Madruzzo, Jean Bertaut, Abraham Woyna, Stanislaw Zaremba, Francesco Vitelli, Juan González de Mendoza, Jean-François de Gondi, Patrick Tyrrell, Marco Battaglini, William Bishop, Ulderico Carpegna, Andrzej Trzebicki, Louis Abelly, Andrzej Szoldrski, Francesco Maria Macchiavelli, Diego Evelino Hurtado de Compostela, Boguslaw Radoszewski, Johannes Wolfgang von Bodman, Jaume Mas. Excerpt: Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet (September 27, 1627 - April 12, 1704) was a French bishop and theologian, renowned for his sermons and other addresses. He has been considered by many to be one of the most brilliant orators of all time and a masterly French stylist. Court preacher to Louis XIV of France, Bossuet was a strong advocate of political absolutism and the divine right of kings. He argued that government was divine and that kings received their power from God. He was also an important courtier and politician. The works best known to English speakers are three great orations delivered at the funerals of Queen Henrietta Maria, widow of Charles I of England (1669), her daughter, Henriette, Duchess of Orléans (1670), and the outstanding soldier le Grand Condé (1687). Bossuet was born at Dijon. He came from a family of prosperous Burgundian lawyers - on both his paternal and maternal side, his ancestors had held legal posts for at least a century. He was the fifth son born to Beneigne Bossuet, a judge of the parlement (a provincial high court) at Dijon, and Marguerite Mouchet. His parents decided on a career in the church for their fifth son, so he was tonsured at age 10. The boy was sent to school at the Collège des Godrans, a classical school run by the Jesuits of Dijon. When his father was appointed to the parlement at Metz, Bossuet was left in Dijon under the care of his uncle Claude Bossuet d'Aiseray, a renowned scholar. At the Collège des Godrans, he gained a reputation for hard work: fellow-students nicknamed him Bos suetus aratro an "ox broken in to the plough". His father's influence at Metz allowed him to obtain for the young Bossuet a canonicate in the cathedral of Metz when the boy was just 13 years ol...

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